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I'm sure as that day comes I will go and knock at the door of heaven and I know what they will say, they will look at their list and say: 'Your name is not there, can you try next door?' I won't go next door because if I went there I know what will happen to me, I will burn for the rest of eternity. I will look for a branch of the African National Congress in that world and join it.Nelson MandelaRecipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.

Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.Nadine Gordimer, Knighted, Nobel Prize winner.

I hate the Afrikaner. I hate his ways, his language and of course his politics.Nadine Gordimer, Knighted, Nobel Prize winner.

The Americans fight for a free world.
The English mostly for honor glory and medals.
The French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate.
The Italians are too scared to fight.
The Russians have no choice.
The Germans for the Fatherland.
The Boers?
Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it!Amerikaanse Generaal, George "Guts and Glory" Patton

Give me 20 divisions American soldiers and I will beach Europe.
Give me 15 consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of Berlin.
Give me two divisions of those marvelous fighting Boers and I will remove Germany from the face of the earth.Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery (Commander Allied forces WWII)

Take a community of Dutchman of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world.
Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth.
Take these formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is immanently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider.
Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism.
Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual and you have the modern Boer.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Their adventures and exploits form one of the most singular chapters of modern history, and deserve a clearer record than has yet been given to them.English historian James Anthony Froude on the Voortrekkers.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) needs to stop turning every incident into a racial issue when farmers try to protect their property, the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (Tausa) said on Wednesday.

Tausa President Ben Marais said that by doing so, Cosatu was encouraging an emotional climate which could lead to revenge attacks on innocent farmers.

He was reacting to remarks by Solly Phetoe, Cosatu’s North West provincial secretary, after farmer Dawie Swart appeared in the Brits Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

Swart faced charges of attempted murder for allegedly shooting four people at his Klipkop farm on suspicion they were stealing oranges on June 14.

Phetoe told protesters at the court that the matter against Swart was racially motivated. Cosatu also called for the withdrawal of Swart’s bail.

However, Tausa cautioned Cosatu from jumping to conclusions.

“Tausa wishes to state once again that the continuing murders of farmers is nothing but ethnic cleansing. Unfortunately nobody is willing to investigate this side of the issue.

“Consequently the theft of something as simple as a cellphone is abused to torture and murder people,” said Marais.

He said Swart’s case was brought to court, and the court would determine the real motive for the incident.

“It is a reality that farmers have many losses due to theft or damaging of property by people who trespass on their land.”

He said untested remarks from Cosatu, as in the case of Swart, promoted a climate of ethnic cleansing.

“The fact that Mr Swart attended the court proceedings in the Brits court is an indication that he has no intent to side-step the procedures of law. Therefore Tausa is not in favour of recalling his bail.”

Swart was granted bail of R7 000 and the case was postponed to August 7 for further investigation.

Cosatu also demanded his case be transferred to the high court in Pretoria.

They also wanted an investigation into an incident in which Swart allegedly shot and injured a farm worker in 2007. – Sapa